Let’s face it, we all expect it to rain on Bank Holiday Monday, but to everyone’s surprise it’s been lovely! I had such a busy weekend seeing lots of friends and family, I felt the need to write about it and document such a fun few days.
Thursday
My older brother, his partner and my niece all came to stay at my younger brothers house. They live 180 miles away so we don’t see them as much as I’d like, so when they do come down we try to cram in loads of fun stuff.
Thursday we all hung out at my younger brothers house and the kids enjoyed some quality time together. My niece and nephew are both 4 years old, and Lamb is 3 1/2 so they get on really well, my other niece turns 2 in September so she’s starting to enjoy their company too. Poor little BB has some catching up to do!
Friday
We all packed up the cars and drove to Jimmys Farm in Suffolk. We had such great day although the weather was way too hot for me. Being blonde and fair I struggle with the heat and generally don’t like being sweaty.
Luckily it wasn’t too busy and I even managed to catch a new Pokemon 😉
My older brother etc came to our house for a bit so my niece and Lamb could run around the garden with the hose to cool down. We enjoyed a game of Crazy Chefs before they headed to my younger brothers house for the night.
Saturday
We all headed to the Zoo at around 3pm. Lamb loves animals, he says his favourites are elephants. Another great family day spent eating ice cream, seeing animals and catching Pokemon.
Sunday
Today myself, the hubby and kids had a family (hubbys family) celebration a couple of hours away. So this day was spent with the in laws etc. We had a meal at 3:30pm then a party at 7:30pm. Both kids were so well behaved. In fact, BB didn’t cry at all in the car… a first! I honestly don’t know what his deal is with the car but he literally screams his little heart out during almost every journey. Sometimes I think it’s wind, sometimes I think he just misses me. I mean, who wouldn’t? 😉 To our surprise we had a super smooth journey there.
By around 9pm Lamb was asking to go to bed (totally unlike him) so we walked back to our hotel. We stayed in a family room in a Travelodge and it was fab. Super spacious and it had a kettle with tea and coffee. Perfect!
Monday
We were meeting my brothers and family for breakfast the next morning so we couldn’t have a lay in unfortunately and were back in the car home at 8:30am. The journey home wasn’t as smooth and we were around 3/4 of the way back when BB had a little explosion and woke himself up. I had a feeling it would happen as he hadn’t been in a while and we all know babies like to do it at the most inconvenient time and place!
We all met up at our local Toby Carvery for a buffet breakfast and then we had Lambs BFFs 3rd birthday party to go to.
Wow I’m getting tired just writing this!
The party was lots of fun. There was burgers and ice cream and the Frozen soundtrack on repeat. Oh, and of course the sun was shining!
Overall I’d say we had a fun filled bank holiday weekend and saw so many family members in such a short period of time!
I hope you all had fun weekends. What did you get up to?
~A~
Aw this sounds like a lovely family filled bank holiday! We had a fairly quiet one over here, it wasn’t the best weather so we snuggled up at watched Finding Dory!
I really want to see Finding Dory!! xx